Reliance on Ourselves, Jessa Gamble

After watching Jessa Gamble's video on how every living organism with two or more cells has an internal clock, I found it slightly controversial because the examples that she used weren't very numerous and convincing. She spoke as though she expected her audience to believe her instead of having their doubts about what it was she was saying. Her presentation technique was also really bland and boring, which made the four minutes of her presentation seem longer than they actually were. I can honestly say that this TED talk was not one of the greatest ones done; a fifth grader could've done better.

She spoke about how if you took away the light, regular and artificial from a person, then they would start to run on an internal clock called the "body clock". Does that mean then that their clock starts running because of the person's habits, or because that's just the was their clock runs? Does every body's clock run on a different time, or on the same? I feel that if every body's internal body clock ran on the same time, we wouldn't be as diverse of a society as we are now, but it would also be interesting if clocks did run on the same time because we all have the same body parts.

Ms. Gamble said that the internal body clock was chemical, but does the battery every run out? Is that when you die, or does the clock not have any influence on a person's life itself? If we as a race don't use our internal clocks, because of environmental influences, then wouldn't we just evolve them away? Why do we all have internal body clocks? Her presentation was so short that either they haven't studied body clocks for very long, or scientists just don't know the answers to these questions. Of course, both of these scenarios wouldn't qualify her for a TED talk because there isn't enough information known and therefore isn't worth the time of the public knowing.

This connects to me because I know realize why I have a hard time waking up so early in the morning and on weekends, my internal clock hasn't set an alarm and the sun is up interfering with my sleep. I don't however know how this TED talk topic relates to education and the world because I don't know why having an internal body clock is relevant to our everyday lives because may of us don't use them. Why do scientists study our internal clocks if we don't use them because of the external clocks we use?